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...primary purpose of American foreign policy, writes Nixon, should be to prevent this from happening. All other causes are secondary: arms negotiations, relations with less developed nations, enforcing "human rights" around the globe. Nixon has Machiavellian contempt for people who find excuses for Soviet aggression, like those who justify the invasion of Afghanistan on the grounds that the giant empire needs secure borders. "The Russian appetite for 'security' is insatiable," he writes...
...about Revolution with a capital R which stood for Right Now and Right here in River City. It was the day after a Chicago jury, under the studious supervision of Judge Julius Hoffman, found five of the remaining Chicago 7 guilty--Seale had already been bound, gagged, hit with contempt of court and severed from the case. The Day After--TDA, for short--15,000 angry protesters gathered in Government Center and about a third of them marched down Tremont St. for some trashing...
...ghost come back to haunt us, a reminder of a period of American history whose buried horrors are still in the process of being exhumed. To those who opposed him and the policies and mindset he represented, Nixon personified the banality of evil. He inspired a visceral contempt among students, who counted on him to supply a symbol of arrogance and decadence. The distaste was mutual. "When dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy," Nixon said, equating protest with murder, on the day four students were killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State...
Again, rollicking ethnic humor is couched in lacerating ethnic self-contempt. Someone ought to write a term paper investigating why almost all of the great U.S. comics on radio, stage, screen or TV come from ethnic enclaves...
Ignatius' ruling passion is his utter contempt for the modern age; its manifestations make his pyloric valve close, trapping gas in his cavernous stomach. His heart belongs to the early Middle Ages...